Easy 5 Ingredient Desserts
Last fall, I shared a collection of 70 easy 5 ingredient recipes that were perfect for busy school nights. All the recipes had 5 ingredients (or less) and were chicken meals, beef meals, slow cooker meals, pork meals and all sorts of other easy meals. It has become a good resource for me, as a busy mom, and for many others. I wanted to share something similar this year, so decided to compile a list of easy 5 ingredient desserts.
We all know that good food doesn’t have to be complicated and this list proves it. You see, I love to cook and bake for my family but I don’t want to spend lots of time in the kitchen. I also love to prepare a special dessert on occasion because baking is one way I show them some extra love around the dinner table. I actually realized that some of my favorite dessert recipes are 5 ingredient recipes like chocolate chip shortbread and our homemade buckeyes.
There are a wide variety of 5 ingredient desserts included in this list. Once I started searching, I knew this was another list I needed to share! There are 5 ingredient bar recipes, 5 ingredient cookies, 5 ingredient pies, 5 ingredient cakes and even some 5 ingredient candies and ice cream recipes! I have already tried several from this list (fudgy nutella cookies were the first ones I tried – yum!) and have printed quite a few others to try, too. I hope you discover some new favorite 5 ingredient recipes on this list.
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Here are over 85 easy 5 ingredient dessert recipes for your family to enjoy, all sorted by dessert category for your convenience.
5 Ingredient Bar Recipes
Strawberry Oat Crumb Bars | Mom on Timeout
Copycat Mounds Coconut Cream Bars | Back for Seconds
Chocolate Caramel Bars | Butter with a Side of Bread
2 Ingredient Lemon Bars | Tamilee Tips
Triple Decker Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars | Half Baked Harvest
Salted Chocolate and Caramel Pretzel Bars | Tastes Better from Scratch
Crunchy No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars | Two Peas and Their Pod
Cherry Almond Turnovers | Cooking Classy
Quick and Easy Carmelitas | Mom on Timeout
S’More Cups | The First Year
M&M Peanut Butter Bars | Rachel Cooks
S’More Dessert Bars | All Things Mamma
Peanut Butter S’More Bars | Chocolate with Grace
No Bake Crispy Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars | Iowa Girl Eats
Cheesecake Bars | The Midnight Baker
5 Ingredient Cake, Cheesecake and Cobbler Recipes
Souffle Cheesecake | Sweet & Savory by Shinee
Cake Batter Cheesecake | Six Sisters’ Stuff
No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake | Julie Blanner
Easy Lemon Tarts | Crazy for Crust
Coconut Lime Tarts | Erica’s Recipes
Milk Chocolate Tart with Peanut Butter Pretzel Crust | Keep it Sweet Desserts
Apple Dump Cake | The First Year
Cherry Dump Cake | The Country Cook
Dutch Butter Cake | Kevin and Amanda
Slow Cooker Pumpkin Dump Cake | Cutefetti
Caramel Apple Dump Cake | Blackberry Babe
4 Ingredient Cobbler | I Heart Vegetables
Flourless Chocolate Cake | Dinner, then Dessert
Chocolate Molten Lava Cakes | Dinner, then Desssert
Molten Nutella Lava Mug Cake | Kirbie’s Cravings
Almond Cake with Fresh Berries | Skinny Taste
Apple Fritters | Frugal Family Home
Chocolate Chip Shortbread Tea Cakes | Joyfully Thriving
5 Ingredient Cookie Recipes
Fudgy Nutella Cookies | Ambitious Kitchen
Cinnamon Sugar Pie Crust Cookies | The Comfort of Cooking
Chocolate Dipped Shortbread Cookies | Happy Deal – Happy Day!
Vanilla Shortbread Cookies | The Semisweet Sisters
Easy Chocolate Chip Cookies | Baker Bettie
Chewy, Fudgy, Flourless Chocolate Cookies | Mamagourmand
Pumpkin Chip Cookies | Cookin’ Food
Easy Coconut Macaroons | Love from the Oven
Vanilla Almond Snowballs | White Lights on Wednesday
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies | The Frugal Girls
Almond Joy Cookies | Mom on Timeout
Raspberry Cheesecake Thumbprint Cookies | Baker by Nature
Oreo Cheesecake Cookies | Baker by Nature
Pumpkin Cheesecake Whoopie Pies | Your Cup of Cake
Funfetti Shortbread Bites | Cooking Classy
Peanut Butter Cookies | How to…This and That
Cake Mix Cookies | Joyfully Thriving
5 Ingredient Pie Recipes
Easy Key Lime Pie | Kalyn Brooke
Ice Cream Pie with Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Crust | Foodie Crush
No Bake Nutella Pie | Recipe Boy
Pumpkin Pie | Living Well Spending Less
No Bake Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars | Recipe Tin Eats
Chocolate Mousse Pie | Yammie’s Noshery
Cream Cheese Lemonade Pie | Great Grub Delicious Treats
No Bake Chocolate Truffle Pie | Kitch Me
S’Mores Sugar Cookie Pie | Crazy for Crust
Chocolate Cookie Butter Pie | Brit + Co
Easy Chocolate Pie | Num’s the Word
Mini Dutch Apple Pies | How to…This and That
Chocolate Crack Pie | The Kitchen is my Playground
5 Ingredient Candy Recipes
No Bake Sugar Cookie Truffles | Chelsea’s Messy Apron
Fudge with Sea Salt | Chef Savvy
2 Ingredient Easy Fudge | Living on a Dime
Peanut Butter Marshmallow Fudge | Delicious as it Looks
Reese’s Fudge | The Recipe Critic
Peanut Cluster Candies | Joyfully Thriving
Salted Dark Chocolate Toffee Fudge | Flavor the Moments
Graham Cracker Toffee | Gimme Some Oven
Lemon Truffles | Premeditated Leftovers
Saltine Cracker Toffee | Eating on a Dime
Homemade Take 5 Candy Bars | The Baker Mama
Microwave Caramel Chocolate Fudge | Chelsea’s Messy Apron
Easy Chocolate Mousse | Sweetness and Bite
Chocolate Mousse | Kitchen Cents
Buckeyes | Joyfully Thriving
5 Ingredient Ice Cream and Frozen Yogurt Recipes
Watermelon Sorbet | Cincy Shopper
Dairy Free Mango Ice-Cream | Clean Eating Kitchen
Key Lime Pudding Pops | A Spicy Perspective
Frozen Sorbet Slice | Chelsea’s Messy Apron
Peach Sorbet | Scattered Thoughts of a Crafty Mom
No Churn Whole Lemon Ice Cream | Kirbie’s Cravings
Raspberry Lemonade Yogurt Pops | Cookie Dough and Oven Mitt
Strawberry Dole Whip | Chocolate Covered Katie
No Machine Peanut Butter Ice Cream | A Thrifty Mom
If you love easy 5 ingredient recipes as much as I do, be sure to check out this list of 70 easy 5 ingredient recipes for main dish recipes that are all made with 5 ingredients or less. Happy cooking!
What a great handy list of recipes! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, Melissa! And thanks for allowing me to share your recipe as part of this roundup!
Thank you so much for sharing all of these wonderful and easy desserts, and for sharing my cream cheese lemonade pie.
You are welcome, Terri! Thank you for allowing me to share your delicious pie recipe!